The time is ripe for the development of the Spiritual Porn Industry. Based on the concept that exposure to God is the ultimate good, the SPI will churn out glossy mags depicting the Lord in his many positions and videos with shoddy production values and thin story lines consisting of visiting repairmen
entering homes and praying with their occupants with little introduction.

While the industry will ultimately be non-denominational with material aimed at all faiths, initial consumers of this material will likely be evangelical Christians, in the closet about their faith or open about it.

The Brides Of Christ art series by Chris Cooper is just that ... [link] for a Bad Religion poster with our buddy Jesus ... the BOC series is also a popular line of tattoo flash ... its really NSFW, but I'll post a SFW poster link ...

This is a very funny idea. Why all the fishbones? It doesn't have anything to do with sex, anyway. It's about prayer and pushing this religious shit on everybody using the same methods that the porn industry does. Read it again!

//thin story lines consisting of visiting repairmen entering homes and _praying_ with their occupants with little introduction// See?

//glossy mags depicting the Lord in his many positions// It doesn't say sexual.

//Based on the concept that exposure to God is the ultimate good// But not exposure THAT way. Just exposure. You've all got dirty minds. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

At first I thought, uh, isn't a variant of this idea already baked in some Andrew Greeley novels? And Song of Solomon/Song of Songs? Wait a minute, you're having <God> as the porn star here? Okay, that's just wrong.

Wait a minute... didn't St. Theresa de Avila have visions of being penetrated by an angel?
I've also heard rumors that the author of the 19th century "muscular Christianity" tract "Water Babies" drew pictures of himself and his fiancée having sex while tied onto a floating cross.

All religious programming features "videos with shoddy production values and thin story lines". If you want shoddily-produced material with embarrassingly poor acting, just turn on your TV on Sunday morning, or ask at your Church.

And as for the magazine aspect, isn't God either ineffable or fatal to human eyes anyhow? I can't see magazines that have nothing but blank pages or that kill you instantly as having a big market.

The church near me sent out postcards with an old man with sunglasses. The caption said "God Rocks". This is really the natural progression of the same idea. OK, maybe with taking a small extra leap of logic.

I think the essence of porn is the disconnect between, on the one hand, one one-sided interaction between subject and camera and, on the other hand, a separate one-sided interaction between viewer and image. If there were any kind of two-way interaction between subject and viewer, then it would become something else, such as cybersex.

Now, you don't have to accept this definition, but if you do, it presents a challenge for this idea.

Trivially, if there is no god, then there's a one-sided interaction, but only one - not a carefully separated pair of one-sided interactions.

If there is one God, then any human interaction with Him or Her is necessarily two-way, to the extent that there's nowhere to hide.

So, spiritual porn would work best on a polytheistic assumption. You would see badly-lit images of other people's household gods, posed around their sacred hearths. You would see suggestions of the tutelary spirits of isolated places you'd never been to.

To some extent this is baked every time a tourist takes an artefact out the cultural context in which it has a special significance, and makes it into a mere conversation piece.

I would hope that racial slurs are not allowed here, and gay bashing is probably out of bounds. And it is not that I do not have a sense of humor.

Baptist goes to Heaven and as he is being shown around by St. Peter he is shown groups of Catholics, Adventist, Assembly of God, and other denominations that just like to hang together and talk about old times. Then they come to a wall so large that he can not see the end of it.

St. Peter I thought there was not supposed to be any walls in Heaven?

Well my son, that was the original plan but... You see, the Presbyterians are behind the wall. It was the only way to make them happy. They think they are the only ones here.

Change denominations to your choice. The problem is that what had been written before is not funny. (OK, maybe this joke isnt funny either, but at least it is a joke). Many of the others wrote slams that not only hurt, they were meant to hurt. Joking is fine, but vileness has no place here. At least I hope it does not.